The Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual: Designed for the Use of Merchants, Business Men, Academies, and Commercial Colleges |
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Page 313 - That no contract for the sale of any goods, wares and merchandise, for the price of ten pounds sterling or upwards shall be allowed to be good, except the buyer shall accept part of the goods so sold, and actually receive the same...
Page 265 - London, (the act of God, the queen's enemies, fire, and all and every other dangers and accidents of the seas, rivers, and navigation, of whatever nature and kind soever, excepted,) unto order or to assigns, he or they paying freight for the said goods at 51.
Page 306 - CD, of the city aforesaid, merchant, my true and lawful attorney, for me, and in my name, and for my use to ask, demand...
Page 265 - In witness whereof the master or purser of the said ship hath affirmed to three bills of lading...
Page 144 - Sixty days after sight of this FIRST of EXCHANGE (Second and Third of same tenor and date unpaid...
Page 125 - TABLE. 10 Mills (m.) = 1 Cent . . ct. 10 Cents = 1 Dime . . d. 10 Dimes = 1 Dollar . $. 10 Dollars = 1 Eagle . E.
Page 305 - ... giving and granting unto my said attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present...
Page 24 - Multiplying or dividing both the numerator and denominator of a fraction by the same number does not change the value of the fraction.
Page 108 - Multiply the amount of the smaller side by the number of days between the two average dates, and divide the product by the balance of the account. The quotient will be the time...
Page 22 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Crittenden Commercial Arithmetic and Business Manual: Designed for the Use of Merchants, Business Men, Academies, and Commercial Colleges Making of America |
| Author | John Groesbeck |
| Edition | 6 |
| Publisher | E. C. & J. Biddle, 1868 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 17 Feb 2006 |
| Length | 348 pages |
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